Climate Food and Agriculture
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Lexicon of Sustainability: Eating down the food chain
The latest installment explains why eating fish lower on the food chain helps the ocean -- and offers up an easy sardine recipe to get you started.
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The man who blew the whistle on ‘pink slime’
Glad to see so many people talking about getting ammonia-treated beef trimmings out of school lunch? You have this former Beef Products Inc. employee to thank.
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This suds for you: Taste-testing organic beer
It's a hard job, but somebody has to do it: In a blind taste test, Grist staffers drink and rate a selection of imported and domestic organic beers.
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A sudsy chat on beer — organic and otherwise — with Grist!
New Belgium Brewing's sustainability specialist Katie Wallace and Beer West Magazine's editor-in-chief Megan Flynn chatted with Grist readers on sustainable brews.
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Home on the range: Can grass-based ranching be scaled up sustainably?
As new science reiterates the importance of cutting down on red meat, can a proposed grass-fed cattle ranch in Florida bring the eat-better-quality-meat-less-often approach to the mainstream?
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Faraway farms: Chronicling urban agriculture around the world
Filmmaker Karney Hatch set out to document urban farming outside the U.S. Here's a sneak preview of what he found.
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Trans fats linked to acting like a jerk
When New York City banned trans fats from local restaurants in 2006, it was trying to make its citizens healthier. Trans fatty acids — which, you’ll recall, are a type of unsaturated fat almost exclusively found in processed food — have a number of proven health effects, including raising bad cholesterol and lowering good cholesterol simultaneously. […]
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Tapped out: Water in California’s farm country is dangerously polluted
A new report details California's nitrate pollution problem -- and the expensive, potentially deadly impact it will have on the people who live in our nation's most productive farming region.
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Changes afoot at nation’s largest seafood event
A visitor to this year's International Boston Seafood Show tracks the sustainability beat.
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Indoor farm in Brooklyn helps feed hundreds of families
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, an increasingly hip but historically low-income Brooklyn neighborhood, one food pantry is also an indoor farm. The New York Daily News visited the Child Development Support Corporation, where every Thursday morning clients harvest lettuce, bok choy, and collard greens that help feed hundreds of families. Right now the greens are all grown hydroponically […]
